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macos add metadata to files terminal

KostasX answered on May 12, 2023 Popularity 2/10 Helpfulness 3/10

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macos add metadata to files terminal

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$ xattr -w com.apple.metadata:MyAttribute myvalue a.txt
$ mdls -n MyAttribute a.txt
# Output: MyAttribute = "myvalue"

$ mdfind myvalue
# Output: /private/tmp/a.txt

$ mdfind 'MyAttribute=*'
# Output: /private/tmp/a.txt

https://stackoverflow.com/a/16306231/4861760

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